Re: kern/87506 : [PATCH] Fix alias support on vr interfaces

On Thursday 20 October 2005 02:27 pm, Anish Mistry wrote:
> On Thursday 20 October 2005 11:15 am, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:23 am, Tom McLaughlin wrote:
> > > Hi, would someone be available to look at kern PR 87506?  I found
> > > the problem while building a jail on my 6.0-RC1 box.  When
> > > setting an alias on a vr device with ifconfig the alias address
> > > replaces the initial address of the device.  marcus_at_ took a look
> > > at the problem for me and provided the patch for the vr interface
> > > which I tested and it resolved the problem. Without the patch I
> > > can't create a jail that is network accessible.
> > >
> > > Marcus also notes in the PR that the rl, sis, ti, and tl may also
> > > be affected by this bug.  If anyone has any other questions or
> > > needs someone to test any changes to the patch just let me know.
> > > I only have vr interfaces on my FreeBSD machines though.  Thanks.
> > >
> > > Tom
> >
> > I'm not sure that fix is really the right fix.  The patch just
> > makes vr(4) ignore changes to if_flags while the driver is up.
> > Probably there is a bug in vr(4)'s handling of alias addresses.  I
> > did just reproduce this on my laptop's rl(4) interface though.
> > I'll see if I can't figure out what is happening.
>
> I'm also seeing this too along with the following.
>
> I'm not sure if this is related, but I'm seeing the following on
> RELENG_6 and CURRENT, but and older RELENG_5 as of ~2 months ago
> doesn't show this problem.
> I'm trying to setup my workstation with a normal DHCP'd address
> and an alias IP for a jail running on the system, but the alias
> setting wipes out all the other addresses on the interface.
> in /etc/rc.conf:
> ifconfig_rl0="DHCP"
> ifconfig_rl0_alias0="inet 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.255"
>
> I've checked the rc boot order (on RELENG_6 and CURRENT) and it seems
> correct:
> netif
> dhclient
> netif
>
> I narrowed it down to:
> dhclient rl0
> ifconfig rl0 inet 192.168.1.11 netmask 0xffffffff alias
> [dhclient prints a message here saying connection closed and exiting]
>
> All of the other addresses on the card are removed.
> I'm also seeing this on dc.  So thinking it to be a problem in
> ifconfig I copied over the version from my RELENG_5 box, and that did
> the same thing...so this seems to be present several of the network
> drivers in RELENG_6/CURRENT.

Yes, it seems to be an issue with dhclient.  If I turn dhclient off and 
manually configure my NIC then the alias works fine:
rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
        inet6 fe80::290:f5ff:fe0e:c8e5%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
        inet 10.50.41.234 netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast 10.50.41.255
        inet 10.50.41.101 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.50.41.101
        ether 00:90:f5:0e:c8:e5
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active


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